The Seven Principles of Health

1. Fresh Air & Sunshine

2. Water

3. Whole Foods

4. Physical Activity

5. Loving Relationships

6. Passion

7. A Good Night’s Sleep

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 Yams
 

Yams are a good source of both potassium and vitamin B6, two nutrients that your body needs every day.  Vitamin B6 helps your body break down a substance called homocysteine , which can cause damage to blood vessel walls. High intakes of vitamin B6 have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease.
 
Potassium is a mineral that helps to control blood pressure. In the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) study, one study group ate servings of fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy food in place of snacks and sweets. This approach offered more potassium, magnesium and calcium.   After eight weeks, this group lowered their blood pressure by an average of 5.5 points (systolic) over 3.0 points (diastolic). Yams also contain a storage protein called Dioscorin. Preliminary research suggests that Dioscorin can help your body to achieve increased kidney blood flow thereby reducing blood pressure.

In addition, Yams' complex carbohydrates and fiber deliver the goods gradually, slowing the rate at which their sugars are released and absorbed into the bloodstream. Because they're rich in fiber, yams fill you up without filling out your hips and waistline. Yams are also a good source of manganese, a trace mineral that helps with carbohydrate metabolism and is a cofactor in a number of enzymes important in energy production and antioxidant defenses.

Farmacy Gourmet V-10 Creamy Yam Soup is a delicious way to offer your body all of the wonderful benefits that Yams have to offer.

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The Seven Principles of Health

1. Fresh Air & Sunshine

2. Water

3. Whole Foods

4. Physical Activity

5. Loving Relationships

6. Passion

7. A Good Night’s Sleep

The Wholefood Farmacy offers healthy, convenient whole food based meals & snacks, non-toxic personal care items, and a website dedicated to "self-care" and a preventative based lifestyle.

http://sweetprofits.wholefoodfarmacy.com

Fruits & Veggies
 

"Eat your fruits and vegetables" is one of the tried and true recommendations for a healthy diet - and for good reason. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent some types of cancer, avoid a painful intestinal ailment called diverticulitis, and guard against cataract and macular degeneration, two common causes of vision loss.
 
What does "plenty" mean? More than most Americans consume. The latest dietary guidelines call for five to thirteen servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

The largest and longest study to date, done as part of the Harvard-based Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, included almost 110,000 men and women whose health and dietary habits were followed for 14 years. The higher the average daily intake of fruits and vegetables, the lower the chances of developing cardiovascular disease.

Increasing fruit and vegetable intake by as little as one serving per day can have a real impact on heart disease risk. According to these two Harvard studies, for every extra serving of fruits and vegetables that participants added to their diets per day, their risk of heart disease dropped by 4 percent.

Fruits and vegetables are clearly an important part of a good diet. Almost everyone can benefit from eating more of them, but variety is as important as quantity. No single fruit or vegetable provides all of the nutrients you need to be healthy. The key lies in the variety of different fruits and vegetables that you eat.

That's why your favorite Wholefood Farmacy foods are made from a wide variety of fruits and veggies! Fruitalicious, Fruitalicious Plus, Veggielicious, and Veggielicious Spice offer a very delicious and very convenient way for you, your family and your children to get plenty of fruits and veggies every day.

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January 9^th, 2008

 

Four Habits You Can Live With

 

 

New research published in the January, 2008, issue of the journal of the Public Library of Science shows that people who drink moderately, exercise, quit smoking and eat five servings of fruit and vegetables each day live, on average, 14 years longer than people who do not practice these lifestyle habits. 

 

British researchers followed 20,000 healthy British men and women ages 45 to 79 from 1993 to 2006.  Each participant was assigned a “health score” receiving one point for each healthy habit.  Those who practiced none got a health score of zero; those who practiced all of them got a health score of four.  The researchers also tested each participant's blood to measure vitamin C intake, an indicator of how much fruit and vegetables they were eating.

 

After adjusting for age and other factors that could affect one’s chances of dying, the researchers found that people with a health score of zero were four times more likely to have died during the course of the study, particularly from cardiovascular disease,.

 

The researches noted that a person with a health score of zero had the same risk of dying as someone with a health score of four who was 14 years older. The lifestyle changes offering the most health benefits were not smoking and eating five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. 

 

In our fast paced society, it can be difficult to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables every day – but that’s where Wholefood Farmacy foods can help you, your family and your children to bridge the gap.

 

Fruitalicous contains a wide variety of fruits which are preserved through the natural process of drying – this increases the nutritional density dramatically.  Eating one ounce of Fruitalicous is the same as eating about half a pound of fresh fruits - one ounce of Veggielicious is the same as eating about half a pound of fresh vegetables.

 

There’s no better way to start the New Year than making sure that you, your family and your children are getting five servings of fruits and vegetables each and every day!

 

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As always, we are at your service,

The Wholefood Farmacy Team